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April 2007 - Posts

• ADO.NET Entity Framework not in Orcas

  Microsoft has just announced that the ADO.NET Entity Framework will not be shipped with Orcas (Visual Studio 2007(?) and .NET Framework 3.5). The previous news were that the ADO.NET EF would be released with Orcas, but without the designers, which would Read More... Posted Sunday, April 29, 2007 3:13 PM by Fabrice Marguerie | 0 Comments

• i4o, indexed LINQ to Objects

  LINQ to Objects is a great improvement in .NET 3.5 to query in-memory collections. It offers a nice declarative query syntax, strong-typing and support for a rich set of operations. One of the things that LINQ to Objects does not offer is indexing. Indexing Read More... Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:33 PM by Fabrice Marguerie | 0 Comments

• New LINQ flavors: LINQ to Flickr, LINQ to NHibernate, LINQ to LDAP

  In the spirit of LINQ to Amazon now comes LINQ to Flickr . Mohammed Hossam El-Din ( Bashmohandes ) proposes an implementation that is very close to what I created with LINQ to Amazon , except that this time it's the Flickr API that is used thanks to the Read More... Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 11:18 PM by Fabrice Marguerie | 1 Comments